Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-25

home. The church is closed and
no meeting will be held tonight"
Then he retired, and was not seen again.
Soon after the committee came down the
street. but were told by the police Captain
that Father Donnelly had forbidden any
meeting. The Chairman mounted the steps
and announced that fact to the crowd, tell
ing them to go peacefully home, which was
done. Tomorrow 1t will be determined
when and where the monster meeting shall
be held to hear the committees report.
Great Flood at Buffalo.
BUFFALO, January 24th.-The ice is only
have been clean sweep of everything in
the river. The situation is threatening.
Nine-tenths of the Thirteenth Ward is un-
der water Between 1900 and 1000 acres
of land in the ward are submerged. Cellars
are flooded and fences swept away. Several
families had narrow escapes. One house
with its inmates only escaped destruction
by the Intervention of a number of trees,
| which caught and held it in the ice. The
Erie tracks at the transfer freight house are
under water, the latter being higher than
during the great flood three years ago. The
Atlas Refining Yard is under water, and
the Kalbleisch Chemical Works Dock is
under four feet of water All the buildings
had been secured by ropes to prevent them
floating away. The natural gas stop-cocks
| are four feet under water and the gas sup
ply was suspended during yesterday and
last night. The damage will be heavy.
Ice-Gorge in the Schuylkill.
READING (Pa), January 24th-All the
small streams and the Schuylkill river
have risen. The ice in the river broke and
a monster gorge formed near Shoemakers-
vi 10 ahoya PaaHipp and pacLre6 SOliHly
fifteen feet high for the entire width of the
river for several miles. The water being
driven back, flows over the surrounding
| country, and is still rising. Serious dem-
age is feared Many fences have been car
| ried away, and some live stock drowned.
Ex-Prcsidents' Monuments
New YORK, January 24th.-A Times
| Cleveland (O.) special says; Garfield S
monument will be completed, it is ex-
| pected, during the coming summer. 1t
| looks as much like a lighthouse as any
thing else. The credit for its appearance
| belongs to the Monument Association, of
which R. B. Hayes is President.
A REBUKE FROM THE SOUTH.
New YORK, January 24th.-A recent
number of the Atlanta (Ga) Constitution
says editorially: Mrs. General Grant has
given 81 900 of Grants back pay to the
+, Grant Monument fund. New York, with
| its millions. is about to let the project fall
through. Why not locate this tribute of
! The nations respect in some city that would
appreciate it? Baltimore, New Orleans or
Atlanta would gladly undertake its COM
| pletion, were it located in either of these
! cities, all OF which would be glad to
have it.
True to His Nature.
al
Smith ark special says Deputy Marshal
Phillips has arrived from Eufaula, Indian
Territory, having charge OF Creek Indian
boy about Is years old, named Seabron,
who, it is charged, murdered three men at
a camp near Eufaula on the night of Janu-
airy 18th. The murdered men were Henry
Smith, Mark Kirkendall and man named
Kelly. Kelly was shot twice and his head
was almost severed from his body with an
AK. Smith and kirkendall were in bed in
tent. their heads being split with an ak.
Their lower extremities from the waist
down were burned to crisp, the murderer
having set them on fire.
A Moonlighter's Crime.
New YORK, January 24th.-The Suns
Atlanta special says: I. c. Justice has been
lodged in the Habersham county Jail for
the murder of J. B. Goddard, an aged citi-
zen, whom he suspected Of giving informa-
ton against an illicit distillery. Justice
met Goddard in field engaged, as he sup
posed, in hunting for his still He shot
the old man down. broke his gun to pieces
over his head, and mutilated the body with
a flint rock. He then hid the pieces of the
gun, but was arrested while yet blood
stained, and hurried off to jail to save him
from the vengeance of the people. The
murderer has a-wife and three children.
A Terrific Explosion.
PITTsBURG (Pa.), January 24th.-The
battery of four steel boilers, at Spang Chal-
fant & Co.'S steel and iron works, at Etna,
a burg six miles east of Allegheny City,
exploded with terrific force at o'clock
this morning, completely wrecking the bar
mill department, killing one man instantly
and mortally injuring two others. The
conclusion was so great that it shook the
houses for miles around, shattering the
windows in the vicinity of the mill. The
ruin wrought in the mill by the explosion
was complete.
A Lane that Has Turn.
BosroN, January 24th. = The case of
Richard J. Lane, charged with embezzling
S120,000 while President of the Abingdon
National Bank, was called to-day. The
District Attorney said that Lane had not
profited by his wrong-doing, had made all
the restitution in his power, and that the
case would probably be compromised. The
hearing was therefore held over.
Pi,ot-Boat Sunl
N o., IN,
life-saving men ard fishermen on the beach
U.s. 5000 ."o ps Soa ~, snois .o-uay,
and capsized. drowning two of the crew,
Walter Roddin and VIM. Dallen. The
others were saved, more dead than alive.
1t was discovered that the yawls belonged
to pilot-boat No H. sunk off Barnegat in